Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty. A Statistical Study in History and Psychology
Author(s): Frederick Adams Woods
Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography, Political Science, Social Science (culture & Anthropology)
Narrators: Leon Harvey
Number of Chapters: 17
Length: 07 hours and 04 minutes
Language: English
Frederick Adams Woods examined the biographical records and family trees of the great dynasties of Europe, judging and comparing their moral standards and intellectual aptitude to their reputation as rulers. The summarised family histories are produced after a painstaking search including portrait galleries, family lineage, comparisons of reputation, and the origin of allegations of madness and moral bankruptcy, all collated within a single volume. - Summary by Leon Harvey
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III — Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The Present Reigning House in England. IV — Mecklenburg. Branches of Schwerin, Giistrow and Strelitz. V — Brunswick. Branch of Wolfenbiittel (Bevern and Blankenburg) (Leon Harvey)
VIII — Montmorency, Conde, Conty. The House of Montmorency. The House of Conde. The House of Conty. (Leon Harvey)
X — Spain. Old Castile, Aragon and Leon. The Hapsburgs in Spain. The Bourbons in Spain. The Bourbons in Italy. The Carlist Pretenders in Spain. (Leon Harvey)
XI — Austria. The House ofHapsburg. The House of Hapsburg-Lorraine. The Hapsburg “Lip". (Leon Harvey)
XII — Portugal. Conditions of the Country Compared with the Various Characteristics of the Rulers. Pedigrees of the Portuguese Rulers. (Leon Harvey)
XVII — Correlation Between Mental and Moral Qualities. Is the Mean Standard of FacultyRising. Average Number of Adult Children Born to Each Grade for Virtues. Hereditary Wealth not an Evil. How Mental Faculties may be Rising. (Leon Harvey)
XVIII — General Statistics and Conclusions. Intellectual Achievements and Blood Relationship. Correlation Coefficients for Successive Ascending Generations. Succession Inheritors Show no Influence from Environment. Virtues and BloodRelationship. No Influence on Moral Character from Different Epochs. Concise Statement of the Probabilities in Psychic Heredity. Intermarriage not a Cause of Degeneracy. Royalty Compared with Commoners — No Degeneracy in Many Royal Families — Superiority of Royalty. Philosophical Significance of the Doctrine of Heredity. (Leon Harvey)
The audiobook Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty. A Statistical Study in History and Psychology falls under the genres of Biography & Autobiography, Political Science, Social Science (culture & Anthropology). It is written by Frederick Adams Woods.